It will be inaugurated tomorrow at 6pm but it was positioned yesterday in front of Caos, in the center of the “Filipponi” roundabout, the large steel Thyrus created by Marco Diamanti, sculptor, Jacopo Cardinali, designer and Luca Finistauri. The Thyrus association has organized “The Days of the Dragon” to celebrate the event, with a series of events, until tomorrow, illustrated in recent days in the presence of the mayor Stefano Bandecchi. The placement of the Steel Dragon, for which extensive temporary changes were made to the road system, immediately sparked the curiosity of passers-by and the social debate, as is tradition between “for and against”. Five meters high, the Municipality, Ast, Fondazione Carit and Asm contributed to the creation of the steel Thyrus, symbol of the city. Today at 5pm at Caos we will talk about the Dragon between history and legend, with a conference by Eleonora Belli in which speakers will include, among others, Paolo Cicchini, art critic, Alessandro Giovannelli, art historian, Andrea Agnetti, anthropologist , Christian Armadori, sociologist, Antonio Rocca, art historian. The steel Thyrus in its definitive location also attracted the attention of the former mayor Leonardo Latini who, in March 2023, presented the project at Palazzo Spada with the slogan “A Dragon for Terni”. “The Thyrus is us, it represents us, it identifies us as a community – said former mayor Latini in a post –.
We immediately perceive its meaning because it is part of our history and our common feeling. It has its origins in a remote past but projects us into the future as a similar expression of our being Terni. It is our symbol and our intimate essence.
And symbols do not divide but bind.”
“In these days dedicated to our Thyrus – continues the former mayor – I like to remember the great work and efforts made by many people and important entities in our city to donate the tallest Dragon in Italy to Terni, the first public work , as often underlined by the former councilor Cristiano Ceccotti, achieved thanks to the instrument of collaboration agreements. Made of our steel, to protect our river”.
